diff --git a/api/tts.php b/api/tts.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f7c47f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/tts.php
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+<?php
+// api/tts.php
+header('Content-Type: audio/mpeg');
+header('Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000');
+
+$text = isset($_GET['text']) ? trim($_GET['text']) : '';
+$lang = isset($_GET['lang']) ? trim($_GET['lang']) : 'en';
+
+if (empty($text)) {
+    http_response_code(400);
+    exit;
+}
+
+$url = 'https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&client=tw-ob&tl=' . urlencode($lang) . '&q=' . urlencode($text);
+
+$ch = curl_init();
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
+    'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
+    'Referer: https://translate.google.com/'
+]);
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
+$audioData = curl_exec($ch);
+$httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
+curl_close($ch);
+
+if ($httpCode === 200 && $audioData) {
+    echo $audioData;
+} else {
+    http_response_code(500);
+}
diff --git a/assets/js/main.js b/assets/js/main.js
index 3e203f2..8256e19 100644
--- a/assets/js/main.js
+++ b/assets/js/main.js
@@ -131,12 +131,29 @@ document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
             if (e && e.type === 'keydown' && e.key !== 'Enter' && e.key !== ' ') return;
             if (window.localStorage.getItem('hospitalQueue:audioEnabled') !== 'false') {
                 initAudio();
+                
+                // Prime Speech Synthesis
+                if ('speechSynthesis' in window) {
+                    const primeUtterance = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance('');
+                    primeUtterance.volume = 0;
+                    window.speechSynthesis.speak(primeUtterance);
+                }
+                
+                // Prime HTML5 Audio for the origin
+                try {
+                    const dummyAudio = new Audio('data:audio/wav;base64,UklGRigAAABXQVZFZm10IBIAAAABAAEARKwAAIhYAQACABAAAABkYXRhAgAAAAEA');
+                    dummyAudio.volume = 0.01;
+                    const p = dummyAudio.play();
+                    if (p !== undefined) p.catch(() => {});
+                } catch (err) {}
             }
             document.removeEventListener('click', unlockAudio);
             document.removeEventListener('keydown', unlockAudio);
+            document.removeEventListener('touchstart', unlockAudio);
         };
         document.addEventListener('click', unlockAudio);
         document.addEventListener('keydown', unlockAudio);
+        document.addEventListener('touchstart', unlockAudio);
 
         let availableVoices = [];
         if ('speechSynthesis' in window) {
@@ -228,8 +245,8 @@ document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
                         let audioObj = null;
                         if (text) {
                             const tl = locale === 'ar' ? 'ar' : 'en';
-                            const gTtsUrl = 'https://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&client=tw-ob&tl=' + tl + '&q=' + encodeURIComponent(text);
-                            audioObj = new Audio(gTtsUrl);
+                            const ttsUrl = window.location.pathname.replace(/\/[^\/]*$/, '/api/tts.php') + '?lang=' + tl + '&text=' + encodeURIComponent(text);
+                            audioObj = new Audio(ttsUrl);
                             audioObj.preload = 'auto'; // Force browser to start downloading
                         }
                         
@@ -260,6 +277,7 @@ document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
                                         
                                         utterance.onend = () => { if (videoPlayer) videoPlayer.volume = 1.0; };
                                         utterance.onerror = () => { if (videoPlayer) videoPlayer.volume = 1.0; };
+                                        window.speechSynthesis.cancel(); // Clear any stuck queue
                                         window.speechSynthesis.speak(utterance);
                                     } else {
                                         if (videoPlayer) videoPlayer.volume = 1.0;
@@ -271,6 +289,14 @@ document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
                                 if (playPromise !== undefined) {
                                     playPromise.catch(handleFallback);
                                 }
+                                
+                                // Failsafe timeout in case audioObj hangs (e.g., blocked by adblocker, bad network)
+                                setTimeout(() => {
+                                    if (audioObj.networkState === HTMLMediaElement.NETWORK_NO_SOURCE || audioObj.error) {
+                                        handleFallback(new Error("Audio load timeout"));
+                                    }
+                                }, 2500);
+                                
                             } else {
                                 if (videoPlayer) videoPlayer.volume = 1.0;
                             }
diff --git a/queue_bootstrap.php b/queue_bootstrap.php
index 04112a7..7f33903 100644
--- a/queue_bootstrap.php
+++ b/queue_bootstrap.php
@@ -695,12 +695,28 @@ function qh_render_nav(string $activePage): void
     echo '      </button>';
     echo '      <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="appNav">';
     echo '        <ul class="navbar-nav ms-auto align-items-lg-center gap-lg-2 mt-3 mt-lg-0">';
-    foreach ($links as $key => $link) {
-        $activeClass = $key === $activePage ? ' active' : '';
-        echo '          <li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link' . $activeClass . '" href="' . qh_h($link['href']) . '">' . qh_h($link['label']) . '</a></li>';
-    }
     if (!empty($_SESSION["user_id"])) {
+        $role = $_SESSION["role"] ?? "admin";
+        foreach ($links as $key => $link) {
+            $showLink = false;
+            if ($role === "admin") {
+                $showLink = true;
+            } elseif ($key === "home" || $key === "display") {
+                $showLink = true;
+            } elseif ($key === $role) {
+                $showLink = true;
+            }
+            
+            if ($showLink) {
+                $activeClass = $key === $activePage ? ' active' : '';
+                echo '          <li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link' . $activeClass . '" href="' . qh_h($link['href']) . '">' . qh_h($link['label']) . '</a></li>';
+            }
+        }
         echo '          <li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link text-danger fw-semibold" href="' . qh_h(qh_url("logout.php")) . '"><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="18" height="18" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="me-1"><path d="M9 21H5a2 2 0 0 1-2-2V5a2 2 0 0 1 2-2h4"></path><polyline points="16 17 21 12 16 7"></polyline><line x1="21" y1="12" x2="9" y2="12"></line></svg>' . qh_h(qh_t("Logout", "تسجيل الخروج")) . '</a></li>';
+    } else {
+        // Show public display link only if not logged in
+        $activeClass = 'display' === $activePage ? ' active' : '';
+        echo '          <li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link' . $activeClass . '" href="' . qh_h(qh_url('display.php')) . '">' . qh_h(qh_t('Display', 'الشاشة')) . '</a></li>';
     }
 
     echo '        </ul>';